Joe Scarborough on running for President: "You never know".

You know what's most encouraging about Scarborough running?


1) He's hated by the tea baggers and the right wing ignorant wingnuts who've hijacked his party
2) He's on MSNBC, not Fox News
3) He appeals to centrists more than liberals or conservatives
4) He's telegenic, interesting, media-savvy and someone you want in your living room (unlike the creeps, bores, frauds and weirdos running for the GOP nomination)
5) He's authentic, and speaks his mind, like it or not
6) He has the courage to say we need to cut entitlements, and balance the budget NOW
7) He has the courage to say we need to get out of Afghanistan and Iraq NOW
8) He appeals to women (unlike the scary creeps running for the GOP nomination)
9) He's unexpected, and his candidacy will throw a big wrench into an otherwise boring GOP race
10) He can win (unlike any of of the other GOP candidates)

Joe Scarborough calls Republicans cowards - "afraid of Barack Obama" and "don't think they can beat him"

It's one thing to call out other Republicans for being cowards.

It's another thing to do something about it.

Yes, the GOP field is afraid of Barack Obama. They don't think they can beat him. And that's why you have self-promoters and wingnuts running. They're not running to win. They're running to enrich themselves.

And then there's Joe Scarborough. If everyone else is a coward, what will be Joe Scarborough's true stripes?

I bet on Joe.




"...They are afraid of Barack Obama. They look at a President that's sitting at a 50 percent approval rating, 9 percent unemployment. He's been pulled to the...middle by the Republican victory in 2012. They just don't think - and if you look at the candidates that could beat Barack Obama they just don't think they can beat him in 2012."

Joe Scarborough isn't conservative enough for birthers, truthers and tea party idiots. So be it. While they're sitting at home in 2012 wondering why their candidates didn't win, Joe Scarborough will be writing his inaugural address.

Scarborough (as usual) brings up a good point - if you don't hate the president, and if you don't run around talking about where he was born, you're not a true Republican.

Idiots, ignorants, wingnuts, lunatics and fringe birthers/truthers have hijacked the GOP (thank you Fox News and Sarah Palin).  2012 will be a GOP civil war.

And a smart, clear-thinking, approachable, fiscal conservative/social moderate, center/right candidate will eventually win out.  Let the Tea Party idiots be damned.  America laughs at the tea partiers.  Their sell by date has long since passed.  And Scarborough smartly knows it.

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FLASH - Joe Scarborough turns down GOP Florida Senate run. Doesn't rule out 2012 GOP Presidential run.

As always, read between the lines.


The Senate is too small for Joe.


The Presidency isn't.


Here's the denial today - and the still-on-the-table presidential run.


Joe Scarborough: GOP Asked Me To Run For Senate In Florida

Scarborough, though, confirmed the report. "John suggested last month that I consider running for the Senate against Bill Nelson," he said. "His intent was clear and unambiguous and echoed his quotes in The Hill. However, I love the job I have and have no intention of running for the Senate."

Jamie Malanowski: "The Making of President Scarborough 2012". Ronald Reagan 2.0?

If Joe runs, it will have seemed so obvious the whole time.

If Joe doesn't run, he'll have blown the one and only chance he'll ever have.

Here's Playboy's managing editorJamie Malanowski telling it like it is.

The Making of President Scarborough, 2012
By JAMIE MALANOWSKI

I don’t know if Joe Scarborough is running for president, but he is sure doing all the things he would need to do if he were.

Over the last few years, Scarborough has taken some cues from the Ronald Reagan playbook. Like Reagan, Scarborough has maximized his best natural asset–his amiability–to position himself as a true conservative who is everyone’s friend and no one’s enemy. And like Reagan in the early seventies, Scarborough has stood aside from the political hurleyburley, with its exhausting fundraising and inconvenient votes, and taken up residency in the soft pastures of media punditry.

Just as Reagan was able to forge his political identity with his radio program, Scarborough is building his brand on MSNBC, where every morning, an audience of taste-makers sees him as friendly, self-mocking, staunch about defense, ardent about fiscal control, someone who admires the president without being smitten by him, someone who agrees with a lot of Republican values without being impressed with their tactics. The bestselling book he published at the beginning of the summer, rather melodramatically called The Last Best Hope: Restoring Conservatism and America’s Promise, puts Scarborough in a fairly interesting place: squarely in the flow of mainstream values, but far, far, far from the fringes. 

Joe Scarborough announces his platform (via twitter): "Balance the budget. End the war. Rebuild America, not Afghanistan.

Keep it simple Joe.

It's a winner.

Here it is:


Balance the budget. End the war. Rebuild America, not Afghanistan. 11:02 AM Mar 6th

Joe Scarborough, sounding like he may have the courage, and the reason, to run in 2012: "For the past two decades, I have spent my public life obsessing about America’s coming debt crisis"

If Joe Scarborough sits this one out, he'll regret it for the rest of his life.  And America will suffer the consequence.

If he runs, he wins. And he gets to take on the problem president after president after president after president hasn't had the courage to address.

Courage.  That's it.  Soon, we'll see if Joe Scarborough has courage, or whether he's just another GOP empty suit, in it for the money.  

I bet on courage.  I bet on Joe.

Finally, confronting the debt crisis


For the past two decades, I have spent my public life obsessing about America’s coming debt crisis.

When I first ran for Congress in 1994, my campaign was obsessively focused on the national debt. In 1995, I attacked Bill Clinton for refusing to endorse a seven-year plan to balance the budget. I voted to shut down the government. I refused to support raising the debt ceiling to $5 trillion. It now stands at $14 trillion. I was attacked by Newt Gingrich in 1998 for being a member of the “perfectionist caucus” because the speaker threw in his lot with Democrats such as Dave Obey to jam through bloated spending bills. And I was with the small group of conservatives who told Gingrich to lead as a conservative or get out of town.

I spent the next decade criticizing my own Republican Party for its shamelessness on government spending. During the Bush era, many GOP members would campaign as small government conservatives and then spend their time in Washington breaking every spending promise they made to voters back home.

The $155 billion surplus we built up in 2001 became a $1.4 trillion deficit by the end of the Bush years. The overall national debt was doubled. A $7 trillion liability was added to America’s bloated entitlement system. Two wars were fought, two tax cuts were passed, defense spending exploded at record rates and domestic spending grew at its fastest rate since the Great Society.

Republican presidents, senators, congressmen and party hacks hated me for exposing them as the hypocrites they were. I preached the doctrine of moral equivalency because, for too long, there wasn’t a dime’s worth of difference between Republicans and Democrats.

Well, it looks like that 10-year-old sermon topic is about to change. And it’s about damn time.

The era of Big Government conservatism is over.

Here's GOP strategist Mark McKinnon a year ago floating Joe Scarborough as the 2012 Republican Nominee on Hardball. And most of the rest of his top 10 are running.

McKinnon's smart.

His top 10 - a year ago:

1. Mitt Romney (in)
2. Tim Pawlenty (in)
3. John Thune (out)
4. Mike Huckabee (whoring himself for money)
5. Sarah Palin (whoring herself for money)
6. Newt Gingrich (in)
7. Haley Barbour (in)
8. Rick Santorum (in)
9. Joe Scarborough (the nominee if he runs)
10. Mitch Daniels (in)
(Long shot: Michele Bachmann) (in)